Traditional storytelling today : an international sourcebook
Record details
- ISBN: 1579580114
- ISBN: 9781579580117
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Physical Description:
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xv, 627 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm - Publisher: Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I. Sub-Saharan Africa -- Hunters' Narratives / Stephen Belcher -- Central African Epics / Stephen Belcher -- To Make Our World a Gentler, More Compassionate World / Raouf Mama -- The Fulani Epics / Christiane Seydou -- The Ga Folktale : Context, Themes, and Techniques / Abu Shardow Abarry -- The Igbo Folk Epic / Chukwuma Azuonye -- Igbo Stories and Storytelling / Chukwuma Azuonye -- The Meaning of the "Meaningless" Refrain in Igbo Folk Songs and Storytelling Events / Chukwuma Azuonye -- The Dogon Creation Story / Chukwumu Azuonye -- The Storytelling Event Among the Igede of Nigeria / Ode Ogede -- Ju/'hoan Folktales and Storytelling : Context and Variability / Megan Biesele -- Storytelling : A Thread of Life Within the Kamba Community / Vincent Muli Wa Kituku -- Narrative Performance in a Changing World : The Case of the "Storytellers" in Kenya / Ezekiel B. Alembi -- The Meditation of Time, the Wisdom of the Teller, the Void of the World / Sory Camara -- Part II. Asia -- The Chantefable Tradition of Suzbou / Mark Bender -- Antiphonal Epics of the Miao (Hmong) of Guizhou, China / Mark Bender -- Rajasthani Hero Legends / Lindsey Harlan -- Two Contemporary Performances of Savitri in Pune, India / Lee-Ellen Marvin -- Saneguruji Storytelling Academy : Transformation of Domestic Storytelling in India / Lee-Ellen Marvin -- Storytelling in Middle-Class Indian Families / Lee-Ellen Marvin -- A System of Narrative Performances in Middle India / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger -- Indonesian Storytellers and Storytelling / James Danandjaja -- Religious Tales and Storytelling in Japan / Richard W. Anderson -- Still Telling in Japan : Traditional Folktellers / Cathy Spagnoli -- P'ansori, the Ancient Korean Art of Storytelling / Chan E. Park -- Enduring Scars : Cautionary Tales Among the Senoi Semai, a Peaceable People of West Malaysia / Robert Knox Dentan -- Professional Storytelling in West Sumatra / Nigel Phillips -- The Tradition of Storytelling in Malaysia / Mohammed Taib Osman -- Thet Siang Performance in Isaan / Wajuppa Tossa -- Storytelling : A Means to Maintain a Disappearing Language and Culture in Northeast Thailand / Wajuppa Tossa -- Part III. Australia and the Pacific -- Nallawilli-Sit Down (and Listen) : The Dreamtime Stories -- An Oral Tradition / Pauline E. Campbell-McLeod -- Ka Ola Hou 'Ana o ka 'Olelo Hawai'i ka Ha'i 'Ana o ka Mo'olelo i Keia Au Hou : The Revival of the Hawaiian Language in Contemporary Storytelling / Ku'ualoha Meyer-Ho'omanawanui -- A Gossamer of Wisdom / Hinekahukura Barrett-Aranui -- Tale Telling on a Polynesian Atoll / Michael Lieber -- Part IV. Europe -- The Albanian World in the Folk Teller's Stories / Ramadan Sokoli -- Basque Storytelling and the Living Oral Tradition / Linda White -- Present-Day Storytelling in Northeastern Bulgaria / Yordanka Kotseva -- Storytelling in Croatia / Ljiljana Marks -- Traditional Legends in Contemporary Estonian Folklore / Ulo Valk -- Factors Influencing the Formulation of Narration / Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhoj -- New Storytellers in France / Veronika Gorog-Karady -- Storytelling in Spanish Galicia / Kristin Bervig Valentine, Eugene Valentine -- Traditional Storytelling Today in the East of Northern Germany / Siegfried Neumann -- Marchen : Taking Care of the Fairy Tale in Germany / Sabine Wienker-Piepho -- Greek-Albanian (Arvanitika) Interactive Storytelling and the Legitimation of Critical Discourse / Lukas D. Tsitsipis -- Aspects of Narrative Tradition in a Greek Gypsy Community / Diane Tong -- Folklore Repertoires : Male, Female / Ilona Nagy -- Traditional Storytelling in Ireland in the Twentieth Century / Patricia Lysaght -- A Storyteller's Growing Consciousness / Inta Gale Carpenter -- Once Upon a Time in Vale Judeu / Isabel Cardigos -- Women's Stories Among Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Far East / Kira Van Deusen -- Storytelling Traditions in Scotland / Barbara McDermitt -- "Our Stories Are Not Just for Entertainment" : Lives and Stories Among the Travelling People of Scotland / Donald Braid -- Storytelling in the Rhythm of People's Everyday Life : An Investigation into Contemporary Slovakia / Gabriela Kilianova -- Problems in Translation and Storytelling Using Switzerland as Example / Barbara Gobrecht -- Part V. Middle East and North Africa -- Egyptian Peep-Show Storytelling / Kamal el dien Hussien -- Narrating Epics in Iran / Mahmoud Omidsalar, Teresa Omidsalar -- Stories About a Moroccan Storyteller / Deborah A. Kapchan -- Storytelling in Palestine / Ibrahim Muhawi -- Matrilineal Myths, Herbal Healing, and Gender in Tuareg Culture / Susan Rasmussen -- Tunisian Storytelling Today / Sabra Webber -- Part VI. Native America -- Storytelling and Teaching : A Cree Example / Kay Stone -- What's in an Ending? : Indian Storytelling of the Inland Northwest / Rodney Frey -- Analysis of a Hupa Storytelling Event / Ruth Seiman Bennett -- Traditional Storytelling at San Juan Pueblo / Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Esther Martinez (P'oe Tsawa) -- Lushootseed Language and Story Revival / Vi (taq[superscript w] seblu) Hilbert -- Part VII. North America -- Where Have All the Marchen Gone? : Or Don't They Tell Those Little Stories in the Ozarks Any More? / W.K. McNeil -- Jack Tales / Carl Lindahl -- Cowboy Poetry and Other Occupational Folk Poetry / Jens Lund -- Del Ringer and His Tales of Salmon River, Idaho / Marjorie Bennett -- Fifty Functions of Storytelling / Margaret Read MacDonald -- "If We Don't Joke with Each Other, We Won't Have No Fun, Will We?" : Storytelling in the Richard Family of Rangeley, Maine / Margaret Yocom -- Stories of Emergency Medical Responders / Timothy R. Tangherlini -- Storytelling Style and Community Codes Among the Swiss Volhynian Mennonites / John McCabe-Juhnke -- Storytellers and the Art of Storytelling in the Mexican Culture / Rosario S. Morales -- Traditional Storytelling Among French Newfoundlanders / Gerald Thomas -- Logger Poetry / Jens Lund -- Part VIII. South America -- Argentinian Folktale : A Genetic Approach / Maria Palleiro -- The Art of Bahamian Narration / Daniel J. Crowley -- "Fattening" in Belizean Creole Storytelling / Ervin Beck -- Holding on to the Past : Maya Storytelling in Belize / David Pendergast -- Function and Performance of the Chilean Folktale Today / Manuel Dannemann -- Lira Popular in Chile : Between Traditional Poetry and Popular Urban Versifying / Marcela Orellana -- Discourse and Storytelling in Otavalo Song : Resonance and Dissonance in San Juanitos / Linda D'Amico -- Guaranitic Storytelling / Martha Blache -- We Are the Real People : Tzotzil-Tzeltal Maya Storytelling on the Stage / Robert Laughlin -- Fragments From the Past : The Politics of Storytelling in Morelos, Mexico / JoAnn Martin -- Storytelling and Mental Representation Among Totonac Indians (Mexico) / Annamaria Lammel -- Exemplary Ancestors and Pernicious Spirits : Sibundoy Concepts of Cultural Evolution / John H. McDowell -- Saramaka Maroon Folktales in Comparative Afro-American Perspective / Richard Price, Sally Price -- The Art of Storytelling : Field Observations in Venezuela / Daniel Mato -- Part IX. Theory -- Children's Telling of Ghost Stories / Sylvia Grider -- Organizational Storytelling / Richard Raspa -- The Role of Traditional Stories in Language Teaching and Learning / Martha S. Bean -- The Storytelling Revival / Joseph Sobol -- Preadolescent Girls' Storytelling / Elizabeth Tucker -- An Analysis of Five Interviews with Storylisteners to Determine How They Perceive the Listening Experience / Brian Sturm -- Urban Legends / Jan Harold Brunvand -- Cross-Culture, Cross-Class, Crossed Wires : A Case Analysis of an Etic/Emic Storytelling Event / Wendy Welch -- The Nature of Women's Storytelling / Linda Degh. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Publisher description also available via World Wide Web. |
Language Note: | Includes text in Hawaiian and Maori. |
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Subject: | Hawaiian language Texts Maori language Texts Storytelling Folk literature Themes, motives Tales Oral tradition Hawaiian language Maori language Storytelling |
Genre: | Fiction. Folk literature. Texts. Texts. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Lummi Library | GR 72.3 .T73 1999 | 246803 | Stacks | Available | - |